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Topic: Beer and Cheese cohabitation (Read 1044 times)

I blew through my keg of English ale this last weekend so I need to plan a brew day. Since I brew outside and haven't done a batch since early fall I haven't had to deal with a fermenting car boy and aging cheese in the same room. My cheeses are all in boxes that are stored in the beer fridge or the mini wine fridge. Am I going to have issues with the beer yeast infecting the cheeses? Could wild beer yeast be in the air in my basement causing me issues?

I also have a sourdough culture that I use for bread and pizza dough but that is in the upstairs main fridge. I doubt if there is any cross culturalization going on with it. But I won't make bread on the same day I'm trying to make beer or cheese.

As far as I know yeast is present everywhere and always so I doubt that the bear yeast would add to that problem. At the moment I am also fermenting beer in the same room with my cheese refrigerator and I don't see anything bad happening to the cheeses.